We’ve got a problem that is bigger than evil.  We look around and evil exists - but what do we do with God in the face of evil?  This episode dives rather deeply into this dilemma that has haunted thinkers for millennia.  If there is evil, how can a loving God stand by?  If there is evil, how can a powerful God be loving?

Texts:

• David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context. Second Edition, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016 (ISBN: 978-0-8028-7421-4).
• Donald A. Hay, Economics Today: A Christian Critique. Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2004 (ISBN: 978-157383284).
• Stephen Charles Mott, Biblical Ethics and Social Change. Second Edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 (ISBN: 978-0199739370).
• Walter Wink, The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium. New York: Doubleday, 1999 (ISBN: 9780385487528).

Readings:
‘Biblical Faith and the Reality of Social Evil’, Mott, Chapter 1

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